The value of quality. Occultism, religion of the East and art of the XX century

The book of the historian of religion Boris Falikov is devoted to such a little -studied topic as the influence of occultism and oriental religions (primarily Hinduism and Buddhism) on the art of the 20th century. Among her heroes are the famous guru and occultists - Elena Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner, Peter Uspensky and George Gurdjiev, Alistair Crowley and those who brought Zen Buddhism and Hinduism to Western culture. As well as writers and artists, directors and musicians - Kazimir Malevich and Vasily Kandinsky, Tristan Tzara and Andre Breton, Peter Brook and Jerome David Salinger ... In the course of reading readers, there are many surprises. Who, for example, could have assumed that Kandinsky traveled around the astral worlds, and the opera of the futurists Matyushin, the twisted and Malevich "Victory over the Sun" thought as an event designed to magically bring the future?